Now they finally found the right fools in audience to believe it.

Especially if those people aren't presently very bright, and are already mad at you for not helping them achieve their unrelated authoritarian goals.

I do not think this is somehow a 3D chess move by Anthropic. They are not masterminds, even if they'd really like to be. People who actually interact with their products know that Fable and Mythos are incremental improvements, not doomsday devices. I think this is a punitive move by an administration that loves being punitive, which they have unknowingly bolstered with their own dumb rhetoric.

It might be a national security problem for other nations to have access to these models. But it's equally now a national security problem for any other nation to depend on them. Or US tech in general.

And potentially more importantly: if a model like Mythos, which at best is an incremental improvement over Opus, is getting this treatment, how are all the AI investments that are based on the expectation of ASI / AGI / significantly better models going to be recouped?

No one's going to risk building anything important on these models if the government will randomly order the use of the model to be discontinued by all foreigners, regardless of if they are in the US or not. Just a matter of a foreign company catching up to take the commercial market for such models (though, as the US often does, they'll ban the competitor, so actually we'll have a situation where the backend uses a different model in only the US).

beautiful good bye, for now

Now, we obviously know that without some kind of brand new ID check, such a thing would be impossible and thus they had to just shut it down. But this touches on the same kind of issue as all the noise about “for the children” ID checking. We might be soon to see the set of “things you’ll have to reveal your identity to the government to get,” expand from “just” porn and social media to the “good” AI models.

https://turbulence.substack.com/p/the-gated-age

I can't help but wonder if it's now obvious that frontier AI work should not happen in the US.

I can understand the KYC aspect of this, but at the same time, how can anyone trust US based AI after this? Maybe this is a continuation of the Pentagon feud, or it's revenge, or it's a KYC play. Either way, you've got a government willing to shut down companies sales over arbitrary reasons.

Ironically, I mostly have a subscription to Claude for work, which is primarily for US baed companies.

After that details don't matter, they've shown their "enemy" colours, once is enough. This is just punishment and it will continue, until they bend the knee.

It's been interesting seeing how OpenAI pops up to counter the threat of AGI being controlled by Google, and then OpenAI and every spinoff company from its employees has become a far larger threat to the public, for different reasons.

As much as it seems like Anthropic's self righteous leadership truly believes in what they're preaching, they've shown themselves to be tied for the worst stewards of this technology. Google actually seems like the best option to me, by far. Anthropic is also the only major lab with no open weights releases.

They'll have burned a lot of goodwill with the community by the time another lab takes the tech lead, which I guarantee will happen.

I wonder if they pulled Fable because it had too high of a “dangerous session” count. If so, I wonder if they’ve considered that their “dangerous session” detector has lost its damn mind this week.

(BTW, that screenshot is 100% real. I was walking to work this morning and a random song played. I had a thought about it and wondered what a model would have to say on the matter. I ran that prompt and got that response, said something profane out loud, and screenshotted it to share with friends. That’s not a mockup, but something I personally experienced and recorded myself.)

https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/d00db56fa754a1b115b6dd7cb2e3c3...

That said, Mythos doesn't seem to be exceptionally good but closer to "following the established trend in improvements"

https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/our-evaluation-of-claude-mythos...

https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/how-fast-is-autonomous-ai-cyber...

It's difficult to predict this administrations actions, but given it included employees that has to be a huge risk for Google, where Deepmind is based in London.

Cohere (Canada) and Mistral (France) are going to get a lot of interest.

See also https://www.404media.co/fcc-wants-to-kill-burner-phones-by-f...

Digital yellow star by exclusion from digital life for foreigners.

Remember when tech companies would go to court to vigorously defend against infringement of their and their customers rights? Turns out that’s just a feature of democracy, once you have autocrats it’s all compliance.

Anthropic just baited themselves with their scaremongering to be the attack vector here.

It a stellar move by the way - since every tech company in an exceptionally fast growing field will comply or miss out sales, you effectively force KYC without legislative process onto much of digital because that’s the only way to comply.

So much for all of the rhetoric about Mythos supposedly far surpassing GPT 5.5 (edit: in cybersecurity, in particular). Of course, the AISI benchmarks also showed this, but it is amusing that Anthropic is saying it now that it is to their advantage.

UPDATE: I lost access at 6:59pm pacific.

> Restricts model to large corporations

> Release information about how Fable / Mythos 5 is stronger than Mythos Preview, give access to every user for a limited time via subscriptions

> Users jailbreak model

> U.S. suspends Fable / Mythos use

Who didn't see this coming?

I wonder what this means for the future of AI models. Either we'll see worse guardrails than what was there for Fable 5 (for me, it was a unusable at times), or the models just stop getting better from here.

I think it's that the guardrails will be more strict, which is unfortunately not good news.

I'm glad I don't own stock in a public Anthropic.

1. Release fable, highly nerfed and limited 2. See the compute capacity limiter pegged day after day 3. Lobby to the government, claiming ai is super unsafe and not aligned and they must do something 4. Government "forces" anth to turn off 5. Anth takes the pressure off of compute capacity, and gets to blame it on the govt

Like you're telling me fable is somehow an order of magnitude better than GPT 5.5 to the point where it compromises national security, despite evals and anecdotes saying otherwise? Nah.

“OK, Dario. Let’s start with you.”

“No! I meant regulations for other people!”

If Fable 5/Mythos 5 are considered dangerous enough to invoke export controls on then future models are almost guaranteed to trigger the same process. Locking them down to US citizens is _very_ interesting. I don't think any tech company so far tracks licenses attached to citizenship.

How will this be implemented/verified? Also, does this mean that American citizens abroad will still be able to access it?

> We reviewed a demonstration of this specific technique being used to identify a small number of previously known, minor vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities all appear relatively simple, and we have found that other publicly-available models are able to discover them as well without requiring a bypass

The page showed June 11, 2026 and has now been updated to June 12, 2026 in the last 10m.

https://imgur.com/a/lx7HCW9

Edit:

Google mislabels crawl dates clearly my bad

This sounds exactly like the opening line from an apocalyptic sci-fi film.

https://youtu.be/l2ThMmgQdpE

Another interpretation, of course, is that this is just US putting a thumb on the scale for US competitors around IPO time. It will be interesting to see if there are any fingerprints.

There's no way they have the authority to actually order this and not just request this right? If crypto is speech... LLMs definitely are...

https://xunroll.com/thread/2064776322979676227

Using combinations of jailbreaking-techniques including: writing cyrillic helped a lot to disarm the filter.

It's vitally important open source models are supported.

The Trump administration should focus on things like the UFC fight etc.

This also looks like the perfect China shaped gap in the market if there ever was one.

So you spend billions of dollars training the model, only for it to be used in the US.

Then interesting to see where most of anthropic revenue comes from. If it's the US then they're fine but if it's global then they'll see a drop in revenue?

Then add to this decision, companies are going to significantly reduce their token spend.

So what does all of this mean for their IPO?

Additional theory: Altman is behind it.

The most ethical goal of an AI lab or government should be to bring the maximum amount of intelligence for as cheap as possible to the people equally.

> As we have stated publicly, we believe the government should have the ability to block unsafe deployments, as part of a statutory process that is transparent, fair, clear, and grounded in technical facts. This action does not adhere to those principles.

But a model that can provide general information, research, or source code for most modern technology?

It is really unusual that this is the first notice of this

Those who bribe Trump and do exactly his bidding (including helping out with war crimes and surveillance of US citizens) will be left alone, or even protected from competition and international law, as long as they keep giving Trump a taste. Those who balk, even a little, will be punished for it.

Republicans never wanted a free market, they just wanted a market that served their interests.

Russia and China could not dream of accomplishing the damage being done to US leadership in tech by our own government as we speak. If they have a wishlist, I'm sure it includes things like stopping immigration of scientists to the US, punishing innovators and elevating hucksters (make them trillionaires, for example), drive a wedge between the US and European allies, insure no one trusts hosting their data in the US or with US companies, erode democracy, and increase inequality especially at the margins (make the poor desperate and the wealthy beyond the reach of consequences).

It may be safer to just move the company to Canada.

Sounds like they only want Americans to access SOTA AI.

On the one hand someone will subscribe $4.99 a month for TODO.app or calendar.com because they are paying for a solo dev or a small team to work on constant development and improvement of products filling a particular niche.

On the other hand, Linux, Django, PyTorch, React, Zed, Helix, Postgres, Arch, Chromium, Firefox, Rust, Python etc. ship continually improving, solid pieces of enormous infrastructure for free, to be used freely by all, off the back of hundreds if not thousands of active core developers. These projects and large and complicated. They are also commodities.

Then, ahem*, on the final hand there are of course Windows, Office, Adobe, macOS and iOS, et al which span both categories: monster projects that are also commercial and also commodities and yet they have hooked themselves into the world in such a way that most folks gotta pay for ‘em.

LLMs feel like they want to be in the same category as the OSs of yesteryear, with all the fanfare of major release versions named like 95, 98, 2000, XP… or like Leopard, Tiger, Yosemite, Sequoia. The training and evaluation pipelines might feel like they fall into those categories, but the models themselves — after all, distillations of someone else’s public or private IP — do not.

”In 1991, the United States Supreme Court in Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co ended a seventy year struggle among federal circuits concerning copyright protection of factual compilations. Prior to this decision, courts allowed copyright protection for works if the compiler labored over his project, whether or not the work involved originality or creativity.” **

It might seem like a trivialization, but aren’t LLMs just telephone directories? Except instead of phone numbers of a public phone system they contain weights of a mind that’s read a public library? Such works might or might not be proprietary based on “sweat of the brow” copyright laws.

* after Niven/Pournelle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gripping_Hand …

** https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic...

... Isn't that basically what Anthropic asked for, literally a week ago?

https://www.anthropic.com/institute/recursive-self-improveme...

> We believe it would be good for the world to have the option to slow or temporarily pause frontier AI development to enable societal structures and alignment research to keep up with the advance of the technology.

[0] https://europe2031.ai

"How dare you release this model to poor people? This belongs only with the ultra-rich!"

They can say whatever they want... but I just have this gut feeling that this is part of it.

There we go. This should make nations consider whether they're letting their workforces become dependent on foreign tools, but of course they won't.

Edit: Fable 5 was just disabled.

(2) I am really tired of the AI community trying to threaten everyone with grey goo and finding out the hype doesn't land comfy with others. It's a freaking text generator, not god in a pocket.

They aren't counter to the government, this is all kayfabe to introduce precedence for the US government to be justified in putting controls on AI, expect that by the end of the month there are discussions to regulate Deepseek.

It could be the case that Anthropic created this whole situation on their own, I figured they'd release a "dangerous" model at some point then piggy back off of bad outcomes to dig their regulatory moat

It could also be the case that Altman has close ties to the white house and is using regulatory levers on his competion.

I stand by that its all Kayfabe to make AI look more dangerous than it is (it cant even center a div reliably) to justify controls on Open Source.

You bribe someone in the admin to restrict access after a couple of days of media blitz and user approval, locking in the honeymoon period that new model releases get (remember when GPT-4 was new?). The spooky factor gives it even more marketing, and just before the IPO the Trump admin frees Mythos and they make nice after the DoD debacle.

“Wait what do you mean you’re banning it?”

They had better give me a refund!

Either deliver on your fuckass promise to end the world and replace everyone and make everything shitty forever or fuck off.

Shit or get off the pot already, clowns.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48498573

But what about the pelicans ?

pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered

(Ok gotta spend my upvote points somewhere)

Any company that uses Magaland LLMs should be aware of the very real Trump related risk.

What happens if the LLM your firm runs on is disabled tomorrow, because Trump wakes up feeling slightly annoyed...

"I think they are lying to you"

https://youtu.be/zfYsSFY4l18

Europe really needs to get some useful sovereign capability and right quick.

There is something called the Streisand effect and they are about to unintentionally get a bunch of more token gamblers into their casino.

We'll see if this backfires hard, but then again constant doomsaying will get yourself under scrutiny and self exclusion (due to the 30+ day retention clause) and this is exactly what Anthropic wants for free marketing.

By thinking for ourselves and writing the code with the keyboard.

Laying the groundwork to limit access to high capability models

Wonder how many US-based early-stage startups are using Opus to research incorporating and moving overseas at this very moment.

EU isn’t tenable, UK is iffy. Australia? Thailand? Who wants to be innovation-friendly?

Although it's gonna be more difficult to come up with a Fable competitor than a m365 one

When you ask for regulation, you get regulated. Welcome to the real world

2. Get treated like you actually did what you claimed, and face consequences

3. ???

4. Profit

Dario, yesterday: "I am grateful to see the Trump administration’s Executive Order move incrementally towards a greater role for government in AI, though Anthropic’s proposal recommends even further action."

Trump, today: Further action

Dario, today: "Waaaah! This petard I asked President Trump for hoisted my ass halfway to the Moon! Nobody warned me he'd do something like this! No fairrrr!"

And now this. How would they even enforce this restriction when they can't know what nationality the end user behind some API query belonging to a company account has? It seems like nobody is thinking things through anymore and the end result is total unreliability from every angle. What a huge mess all of it, sigh.

The US has long been catastrophically corrupt, with a pay-to-play government, but this army of grifters and thieves have turned every dial to 11.

> In fact, our safeguards are so strong that many users have complained that they are overly broad.